Viacom and the 2010 FEC election cycle

The Viacom × 2010 join

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation text as grouped strings and election cycles as two-year tags. Where Viacom meets 2010, the itemized individual total is $194,300. That is 152 contributions from 54 donors. The figure is not a corporate treasury transfer and does not identify who received the money. Cite FEC.gov.

The viacom hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub restates a one-key total. This tie keeps both keys. Viacom is media employer text. VIACOM INC, CBS, and PARAMOUNT PICTURES are other keys. Rows that used those other strings are not added into $194,300.

A share of 4.5% versus $4,344,777 is a scale check, not a ranking of cycles and not evidence of a coordinated program. The remaining 95.5% ($4,150,477) lives on other even-year pages for the same string. 2010 is a midterm even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Scale: $194,300 versus $4,344,777

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,344,777. The 2010 slice of $194,300 is about 4.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.5% ($4,150,477). Treating 2010 as the entire Viacom FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $4,344,777 as the denominator for the 4.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $4,344,777. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

Gift count, donor count, and $194,300

Dividing $194,300 by 152 contributions yields about $1,278 per itemized gift. Dividing by 54 donors yields about $3,598 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim.

54 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Viacom 2010 holds the rows.

The two-year 2010 window

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Viacom is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Viacom to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $194,300 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 152 contributions, the 54 unique donors, and the 4.5% share of $4,344,777.

Text match is not a payroll file

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $194,300. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is media employer text, not a Viacom PAC, not PARAMOUNT PICTURES as a studio cell, and not a cable-advertising revenue figure.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 54 donors, and 152 contributions. VIACOM INC, CBS, and PARAMOUNT PICTURES are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

A citation that keeps both keys

Start with $194,300, then Viacom 2010 for rows, then Viacom or 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: VIACOM, 2010, $194,300, 152 contributions, 54 donors, 4.5% of $4,344,777, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.5% share, the 54-donor count, and the $1,278 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 152 itemized contributions totaling $194,300 average about $1,278 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Viacom donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $194,300 in itemized individual contributions for the Viacom grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 152 contributions and 54 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,344,777 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Viacom FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,344,777. The 2010 cell of $194,300 is about 4.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.5% ($4,150,477) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed Viacom workers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string VIACOM. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2010 only, totaling $194,300 from 54 donors across 152 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Viacom 2010 join?

Open Viacom 2010 for the cycle overlay, Viacom for the grouping hub, and 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $194,300, 152 contributions, and 54 donors.